971 Arena 1 (1/2)
After some time, Garen was awakened by the sounds of a heated argument.
”My stuff isn't something anyone can take,” a seemingly young male voice rang out loud.
”The stuff I want is not something anyone can deny me!” A cocky female voice calmly said.
What followed was a loud and violent shockwave.
Garen was awakened from his calculations. He let out a big sigh and looked up at the ceiling that was flaking dust. The shockwaves continued one after another, seemingly never-ending.
He stood up, walked to the window, drew open the curtain and looked down where two small silhouettes were standing facing each other on the street below. In between the two silhouettes, a red and a blue shadow kept rapidly colliding with each other. From the looks of it, the blue shadow seemed to be at a disadvantage because every time it got hit it would let out a loud moan.
It could clearly be seen that the two silhouettes were both below the age of 20. The boy was in a blue shirt, with a silver bracelet around his wrist, emitting multiple spots of silverish light. The blue shadow in front of him seemed to be getting forced into a corner.
On the other hand, the girl was waving a golden can in her hand, giving off a prideful aura. She was instructing the red shadow to attack continuously, almost as if the waving was conducting the red shadow's every move, like a whip continuously whipping forth.
The willpower shockwaves from their battle caused ripples that were at least Level Three in strength. Looking at the core of the battle where the strength was most intense, it was even at Level Four degrees of power.
There were many Energy Machinists surrounding and watching the bout. In this location, it was impossible to bring out large-sized Self-Defense Evolved Creatures. One could only carry super-small-sized strong types or utilize space equipment, but both of these methods were far too expensive. Even if this was the city of Nagadako, a super-small-sized evolved creature was not something the average energy machinist could afford.
This was comparable to having a person earn tens of thousands bucks per month when the average monthly income was two or three thousand bucks. Everyone would be using a cheap ten buck wallet, whilst the person would be using a pure leather wallet worth thousands.
It's the same in this situation. Those who own super-small-sized evolved creatures would at the very least be from a wealthy household. It was considered a brand and a status symbol after all.
However, at this point, the two were displaying an unmovable arrogance in their actions. The boy was being suppressed so much that he had started to lose his breath. His blue shadow started to move slower and slower, becoming clearer and clearer. Slowly, the shape of the shadow could finally be made out, it was a tiny hummingbird that was completely blue in color.
As the hummingbird's movements slowed down, the other red shadow also slowed down its attacks in response.
urprisingly, the red shadow was a palm-sized red skeleton. The red skeleton was floating in the air, with a pair of red wings flapping rapidly on its back.
”Hand out the stuff,” the girl put out her hand. ”Your hummingbird is no match against my skeleton.”
”Red skeleton! Hmph!” The boy coldly sighed, his face pale. Finally, with a toss, he threw a brownish ball to the ground, turned around and left.
The figure of the hummingbird slowly started to fade away, then disappearing into the boy's body.
”Looks like you at least have some tact!” the girl chuckled as she picked up the brownish ball. She glanced around at the surrounding energy machinists, then returned to her cold emotionless expression as she turned around and left the area.
Garen let out a breath in amazement.
”This is indeed the central city, where the energy machinists are the most advanced. The elites from all around the universe have gathered here. To be a Level 4 energy machinist at the age of 20, this degree is far crazier than me.”
Garen did some calculations and it would take more than 10 years for him to successfully get to Level 4. However, in this 10 years, there's no telling how far these geniuses would have already progressed.
”This time, the body I got was certainly average in the willpower aspect…” Garen let out a sigh, closed the curtains and continued his calculations. All achievements relied on slowly accumulating small steps.
Word of the battle between the hummingbird and the red skeleton started to spread. Soon, a recorded video of the two's confrontation got uploaded to the Internet. Garen took out some time to use the inn's public computer to watch the video, but he couldn't learn anything from it. The skills used by the two were one tier higher than his capabilities so it wasn't something he could learn at this time.
The elite evolved creatures they used were at least Level 4 or 5 in terms of combat power. He might not even be able to withstand their attacks even back when he was in his strongest state and in a mech.
After all, he was only testing the waters.
After an uneventful night, early in the morning of the next day, Liz and Accord came over and knocked on his door. Garen had already washed up earlier. The three then proceeded to make their way towards the selection tests.
At the time, plenty of youths planning on taking the selection tests had already gathered at the Star Core Plaza. Almost all of them were below 20 years old, with barely a handful of people in their 20s.
Walking amongst the crowd, Garen and company did not look anywhere out of the ordinary.
Bong!!!
A melodious clock bell sounded from within the Star Core Plaza.
The fence started to vibrate and instantly faded away, almost as if it was never there in the first place.
At this moment, a mustached man in what seemed to be yellow royal garbs walked out from inside. He pridefully surveyed the people in the crowds who were eagerly awaiting their entrance.